Goblin in the Gulch

Gavlon over at Greedy Goblin was playing 19s Warsong Gulch. He was looking at players behavior while trying to complete objectives. It was a good assessment.

All of his talk about time and gold. I was shocked that they spent time on the Furbolg Medicine Pouch. That is a reputation grind and can be only bought at honored. Many a druid I have helped with that grind and it is not a small feat.

He also leveled engineering for his priest for the head piece. He could have stopped at getting the Shadow Goggles. Particularly since he was dedicated enough to go fishing. The idea that Gavlon was fishing for the fishing hat sends me into giggle fits.

There are other … ok lots of things… that would have been better and ultimately cheaper. All of you that actually know twink gear stick to the spirit of the exercise. Everyone else, they are geared enough, just not my definition of a twink.

It only takes three people to easily control the game, two to be annoying.

With three you have one to carry the flag, one to defend, and one to float from the two to help where the apposing team is strongest.

From the beginning all I wanted was two others in team that would listen and KNOW how to play. The other seven in the game can be a pack, that kills in the middle, runs in a mob, and basically runs in circle chanting “Red is dead.” Ultimately, using Gavlon’s term being M&S**.

The most important tool in a battleground is your zone minimap. I feel like it is so important it is on my side bar Zone Map = Shift + M.

The M&S will tell you where the Horde is and as a flag carrier you can attempt to avoid them. The M&S will also tell you if the apposing team is going ramp or GY. The idea that you would get this information from actual BG chat is lolable. Twinks have macros for this, M&S don't know it is important information.

Also the “stall” in game he talks about is called a Turtle. Turtle is where the one team just defends in their base. I don’t have the patience anymore for the epic two and a half hour turtles. Granted with the debuff long games are at least a reduced possibility.

Not once did you see me say I needed "three GEARED to the teeth players". Nope, it is about knowing what you are doing that is more important. The ability to react to the information given to win.

It is good to see new people starting up twinks and running them. I am looking forward to being able to turn off experience and only fighting twinks. I may actually want to run games more then once a month.

**For those that don’t read the Greedy Goblin, M&S = Moron and Slacker.

Don't Smell It

Why is there no bag cleaner? Since level 1 we have had heads, hearts, intestine, etc inside our bags for one quest or another. After 80 levels we need a backpack disinfectant.

Mount Glitchs

My headless horseman mount in/on the sidecar of a motorcycle.
If the driver uses their Iron Boot Flask, it folds up the side car. The rider is still inside.
Talk about eating dirt.

Girls Night Out

This was the most fun in Obsidian Sanctum I have had in months. We had a girls’ night out. All invited. We would figure out raid set up once we put the raid together.

A friend set it up. We were wracking our brain about who we knew was an ACTUAL female. I was able to talk to a few. Of course afterwards I came up with a few more I need to talk too for next time. We should eventually be able to fill a full 25 Woman raid.

We did have a few guys try to shoulder into the raid. When we were looking for more to fill the 10 woman raid, offers of “I will mute myself.”, “I can tank.”, and the easily ignored “Can I come?” were many.

At one point there was a discussion about Hydra healing. Laughter ensued. Hydra brings the dps. Iuncusia brings the melee dps or some tankage. I tried dispelling diseases and I had trouble with that. (It is a sordid tale.) We had plenty of healers so it was not an issue.

Once we decided to 8 women OS. We needed an off-tank, instead of Hydra getting to pwn face, Iuncusia was off tank. First time tanking in OS, but I felt very comfortable tanking. It could have been that I was Naxx OT the week before.

There was no yelling. There was a lot of chatter. There was some giggling. There was lots of killing. In the end there was one dead dragon.
(Yes, I saved myself to an OS 10 just to take the picture with Hydra.)

I lied there was yelling.

While tanking, I was on Sartharion’s adds. I had never done this before. There was an unfortunate Growl on the boss. *blush* So there was me screaming “I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Here you can have it back. I’m sorry.” ... but with cussing. Lots of cussing.

We plan on trying this every other week. The next one is already planned. We think we are going to try going EoE sometime too. Many have the neck piece quest. Since a lot of our guilds no longer run OS and EoE as guild runs these will be quick fun runs.

Girls only raid, Vent required.

Who owns your Guild Site?

He builds a guild with others. Put the guild website together. Stuff happens. Then he decides to leave guild. Does he have rights to the guild website?

True. He did the site, with help. He bought and owns the domain. He maintained the server.

There was a falling out.

He is no longer part of that guild.

He left and then held onto it all.

To me is seems a bit petty, immature, spiteful and … honestly weird.

I picture this guy, standing next to his computer desk with a back screen. He is all proud of himself and smug. He stands there for a moment, as no one else cares. Then in the quiet, he stomps his foot and sticks out his lower lip in a full blown pout.

That is not entirely true. People do care. They care enough to move on. They hack the site to link to a new site. They image the database to ensure the information is not lost. Unfortunately the one thing they couldn’t fix was the change to the application form listing.

Over time as people typed in “War Machine on Farstriders”, they were brought to an incorrect site. They applied on a guild site that the guild had no control over and if they didn’t talk to a guild member they would never know. (A certain blogger, with her own tiny web presence, could have fixed said search organically. But nooOOOooo they didn’t think to even say anything to use her minions (*points at you* BTW) to fix future google searches.)

This issue with a bunch of other things decided the guild officers to move the guild to a new name. It has taken a long time to come to this point. The change recharged the current officers.

Tempest on Farstriders is now raiding.

Need More Stable Slots! - SPCA Charity Drive

Brajana over at Mend Pet is hosting a charity drive for the SPCA . The drive is thru July 31, 2009.

There are links.
A bunch of details.
And prizes to be had!

Check out the SPCA website to see what is going on with them. I liked all the stories and reading about the Shelter of the Week. I found one of my kitties, Lyta (named after character from Babylon 5 and Sailor Moon) at a shelter and was the best thing ever.

Pounce over to Mend Pet and see what is going on. Say "Hello" to Brajana while you are at it.

Happy 4th

...fellow Americans.

Yesterday was Wii Sports and a reminder that if you want a hard game you need to re-play Super Mario Bros. 3. Mario 3 is unforgiving. One mob hit and you are dead.

Today, Husband and nephew resurrected our x-box and played Star Wars: Battlefront II.

I helpfully yelled at the two of them "DON'T STAND IN THE FIRE!!"

After a pause for a bad PvP run (something about corpse camping) The two of them are starting up Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy.

Me. I am watching NASCAR.

House smells like pizza, apple pie, and cantaloupe.

Happy Independence Day! Stay safe, cool, and free.